grannyring
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| Ribbon midrange pros and cons Correct, Raal tweeters are fantastic and the sound coming out is also dependant on the overall speaker design. Just cannot say all ribbons sound bad as a blanket statement. Just not true. Robert of Acoustic Zen incorporates a ribbon in his Crescen... | |
| Pulsars and the Mythical Armchair Speaker Maker DIY is absolutely one very real means to great sound at astounding savings. Been there, doing that and so loving it!It does take some skill and experience to get to the point of making gear as good or better than big dollar brands. That experienc... | |
| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ I assume the Gate would have the same or greater impact on your rig at the breaker vs hardwired to your stereo room outlet/outlets. Right? Plus the rest of your home electronics benifit! Charge your iPad in 5 minutes! | |
| How good is your system Yes indeed playing at a moderate 75db weighted average. | |
| Which Has Best Sound Quality -- CD vs. Tidal vs. FLAC Uploaded From Burned CD Sure , you can take a poll, but how will this help you specifically? If streaming Tidal is most important to you, then get gear known for and built to assure streaming sounds best. If you will do more ripping and listening from stored cd files, th... | |
| Which Has Best Sound Quality -- CD vs. Tidal vs. FLAC Uploaded From Burned CD Gear dependent so the question is really not answerable. System by system variance is a reality here. | |
| Should an amp have a "personality"? So right roxy54. Every amp has a personality. Actually internal wire, caps, resistors, rectifiers and even the darn chassis EACH have a sound personality. So yes, the end product also does. | |
| Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time" Well said. Hard to ignore the posters you are referring to, but I have finally learned how to do it. I am also rather interested in these speakers. Great value certainly. | |
| Electrolytic 4 poles Jenson vs Mundorf If you want the best, then consider using Clarity TC film caps. Get the Kelvin style 4 lead out version. Simply fantastic in tube amp power suppliers. No need for electrolytic caps if your amp is tube rectified. I find ridding my tube builds of ... | |
| Lyngdorf Customer Service They sent me a replacement bòard for free and shipped it using a 3 day service. They also responded to online inquiries on several occasions. | |
| Affordable Streamer with great Internet Radio, Tidal, Android support? Innuos Zen mini is a great choice. | |
| Shielded power cord best used on Digital/Source or on Tube Amps? Yes indeed the new Duelund 12 gauge Polycast 600V wire with Connex carbon fiber barrel and rhodium plated over pure copper conductors is better sounding after burn in. Cost is $165 shipped for the parts. | |
| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic Great question. Two new ICs. One standard and one double both with KLEI Absolute Harmony plugs which are the best sounding rca plugs I have used. | |
| Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time" @jayctoy I am confident you are correct. I want to build a couple of SET amps and these speakers would be the perfect sandbox for me to play with them in....as well as my current tube amp. | |
| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic I double up 16 gauge conductors on my SM ICs and the results are stunning. To me the sheer ease and control of the music hits me first. Then comes the wonderful full bodied and expansive sound resulting from this method of building ICs. I now o... |